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Banks’ trading activities can carry a substantial part of their total risk and be a channel of contagion in bank crises. A keen understanding of what’s in trading books and of how to wind them down post resolution while staying solvent is key for a...
The EU has put in place robust rules for bank supervision and crisis management, including a strong resolution framework. We’ve seen these pay off, in terms of how the European banking sector has coped with a series of crises. The rules also ensured the...
In this episode of the SRB in 5 podcast, we talk to Andrea Enria, the Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), about his experience as the chief banking supervisor in Europe. He shares his insights on the lessons learned from the...
During the recent economic shocks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the more recent inflation surge, the EU banking system proved resilient and continued to provide lending to the real economy. In addition to the support provided to the economy by the...
SRB in 5 - Tuija Taos as the SRB's newest Board Member talks to us about her first impressions, the resolution planning cycle, gender and diversity and many more issues!
Our fourth podcast episode features SRB Chair Dominique Laboureix, who talks to host Susan Carroll about his first months in the role, lessons learned from the recent banking crises and his tips for medieval architecture gems to visit in Belgium.
As the SRB enters phase two of its existence, SRB Chair Dominique Laboureix shares his reasons for launching a strategic review of how the SRB works, which will feed into a new plan for Europe’s central, independent resolution authority.
Two months ago...
Our third episode features former SRB Chair Elke König who reflects on her eight-year term at the SRB, the challenges of setting up an organisation from scratch and what she is most proud of.
It is now a decade since the Liikanen Report was published. While the proposal for structural reform in the banking sector was not implemented in the EU, many of the ideas brought forward by the high-level expert group can be found in other regulatory...
Euro area banks have emerged from the pandemic largely unscathed, mainly due to the unprecedented support from governments, central banks, regulators and supervisors. Bank capital in the form of Common Equity Tier 1 even increased throughout the pandemic...
Welcome back to the SRB Podcast! Our second episode features SRB Board Member Sebastiano Laviola on the SRB's Public Interest Assessment and his personal take on it in just five questions.
The views expressed are those of the speakers and not the Single...
Each year, we collect contributions to build up the Single Resolution Fund (SRF), an emergency crisis fund that supports bank resolution. Around 3,000 banks and other financial institutions, across the 21 EU countries that make up the Banking Union, will...
The SRB is continuously enhancing its approach to the public interest assessment (PIA). This is the main policy tool used to assess whether a failing bank should be resolved in the public interest, or whether it can be liquidated under normal insolvency...
Welcome to the new SRB podcast, where we explore different aspects of bank resolution in just five questions.
The first episode features an introduction to the Single Resolution Board and why it was created, and our first 'SRB in 5' section interviews...
The dawn of the New Year is not the only time that we at the SRB think about resolutions – we do that every day of the year! Our focus is always on making banks resolvable so that we can promote financial stability and protect the taxpayer. However, the...
The SRB’s role is to develop resolution plans that are ready for action at very short notice, for the banks under our remit. If a bank should fail, our goal is to make sure that happens in an organised and orderly way. We make sure that any critical roles...
From the Finnish national resolution authority’s viewpoint, the BRRD offers us strong yet flexible tools to prepare for crisis management in our local banking market. Thanks to the Banking Union (BU), the SRB provides us with skilled professionals and...
The European Banking Union still awaits completion, with more work urgently needed to move towards a fully integrated system that delivers better crisis management, depositor protection and a stronger banking sector.
The European Commission has recently...
Making banks resolvable remains the SRB’s key priority [1]. Banks entered the Covid-19 crisis in a much better shape than during the 2008 financial crisis, and were instrumental for financing the economy. However, the pandemic also reminded stakeholders...
In a severe banking crisis, the question of what to do with impaired assets is often raised. The most straightforward option, of selling the assets at a low price in a fire sale, can trigger an unnecessary destruction of value, with the banking framework...
The public interest assessment is a key safeguard in bank resolution, to protect taxpayers and financial stability. When faced with a failing bank, the SRB considers whether resolution best serves the public interest or whether the bank can go into normal...
Resolution planning has come a long way since the financial crisis 2007/08 and is now firmly rooted in the Banking Union’s regulatory framework. Preserving financial stability in all 21 Banking Union Member States and beyond is key[1], and this guides the...
There is no doubt that 2020 was a milestone year in many people’s lives. At the SRB, 2020 also saw us hit two major milestones from a resolution planning perspective.
The first of these was the introduction of a new resolution planning cycle (RPC) based...
We ended 2020 with agreement on another important step on the road to the Banking Union.
The Eurogroup (in inclusive format) agreed to move forward with the reform of the European Stability Mechanism and to establish the common backstop to the Single...